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January 2015 Issue 21

In This Issue

Happy New Year

New Chapters

SADD Shines

West Iredell High School

Manteo High School

Registration Update

January Calendar (Ctrl + click to follow links)

Elementary School Campaign

National Blood Donor Month

MLK Day of Service

No Name Calling Week

National Drug Facts Week

February Calendar SADD Shines Day

Friends for Life Campaign Dating Violence Awareness

Eating Disorders Awareness Big Bowl Vote

Ideas? Questions? Concerns?

Contact

Harriett Southerland

919 807-4400

919-807-4415 fax

hsoutherland@ncsadd.org

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2015! It’s a brand new year! We all have the wonderful opportunity to make a fresh

start. The foibles and pitfalls of 2014 are a thing of the past, and we will not let

them ride our backs into this bright new year. In 2015, let’s resolve to outdo our

2014 selves. Let’s resolve to continue strong, active, achieving SADD chapters.

Resolve to be seen and heard in your schools and communities. Make sure no

one in your school can say, “I don’t know” when asked if your school has a

SADD chapter. Along with other resolutions you’ve already made for the new year,

include some resolutions of recommitment to SADD and your SADD chapter. Here

are a few you might want to include on your list.

● Work to make my SADD chapter more than just a club.

● Be actively involved in all SADD meetings.

● Come up with new ideas for projects and activities.

● Be a SADD role model at my school.

● Be tolerate of others and never pick on or intimidate others.

● Stand up for other students when they are being mistreated.

● Get at least one other student to join my SADD chapter.

● Promote SADD in my school, my community and to students from other schools.

● Support the State SADD Conference in November.

Be sure to write your resolutions down and sign them as a commitment to yourself.

Refer to them often to help you stay on track with your new goals.

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WE WELCOME OUR NEW CHAPTERS SADD is growing by leaps and bounds in North Caro-

lina, and we get excited every time a new school

starts a chapter. The following chapters came into the

SADD fold during the fall school term. They are listed

by name of school or community organization, city,

county and chapter advisor.

Westover High School, Fayetteville, Cumberland

County, Gary Womble

Granite Falls Middle School, Granite Falls, Cald-

well County, Ashley McCray

Heritage High School, Wake Forest, Wake

County, Kathleen Lyles

Girls for Empowerment, Elizabeth City,

Pasquotank County, Kim Wilson

North Iredell High School, Olin, Iredell County,

Reggie Allen

Sandy Grove Middle School, Lumber Bridge,

Hoke County, Felicia Ellis

Forestview High School, Gastonia, Gaston

County, Hayley Marr

We also give a big “WELCOME BACK!” shout out to

schools that have reactivated their chapters after be-

ing dormant for a few years. Working together, we can

carry out SADD’s mission of empowering young peo-

ple to successfully confront the risks and pressures

that challenge them in their daily lives.

SADD SHINES DAY COMING SOON

SADD Shines Day, February 4, 2015, will be a day we

celebrate all the ways

SADD teens make a differ-

ence in our lives and for

SADD chapters across the

country to celebrate and

shine together. The theme

is “Youth Lighting the Way.”

On SADD Shines Day,

chapters conduct a special

activity centered on a homemade lantern idea to illus-

trate how SADD youth show the way to make their

schools and communities better places to live. Use

your creativity to show ways that your chapter is light-

ing the way. Make sure

you hold an event, make

some cool lanterns and

light them up, wear your

SADD gear, celebrate

what you do and take pic-

tures to share with state

and national SADD and

your local media. We want

to raise awareness of the

power of positive peer en-

gagement. It’s our time to

let our light SHINE!

Photo, above right, shows a lantern made by Uwharrie Charter Academy for the 2014 SADD Shines Day.

REACHING BEYOND THE SCHOOL

West Iredell High School SADD is demonstrating the

SADD Caring Triangle of school, home and communi-

ty working together to help

teens make better deci-

sions about important is-

sues in their lives. Katie

Thompson, West Iredell

SADD president and NC

SADD Student Advisory

Board member, is leading

her chapter in planning a

Parent's Night for March.

Parents from throughout

Iredell County will come to the school for presenta-

tions by young people who are living with the conse-

Advisors Just Wanna

Have Fun!

Reggie Allen, new

advisor at North Ire-

dell High School,

showed up as Captain

Incredible at the

SADD conference Su-

per Heroes Dance.

Our advisors are in-

deed The Incredibles! Katie Thompson

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quences of destructive decisions. Katie says the primary goal of the event is to help parents learn how to

keep their kids safe and help them make better choices. We wish West Iredell success with Parent's Night,

and we look forward to learning more about the event.

A BUSY WEEK AT MANTEO

During the week leading up to the Christmas school break, Manteo High School SADD provided opportuni-

ties for students to focus on highway safety and making good decisions; all while having fun. Each day had

a different activity (see flyer below). This is a great idea to go on your calendars for 2015! Thanks for shar-

ing, Officer McKay (Manteo SADD Advisor).

CHAPTER REGISTRATION

There are still a number of chapters that have not updated their registrations for the 2014-15 school term. If

you do not want to register and your information has not changed, just email the state coordinator at

hsoutherland@ncsadd.org that you want your registration updated and it will be done for you.

North Carolina Department of Administration ● Youth Advocacy and Involvement Office

116 West Jones Street, Raleigh, NC 27603 ● 1319 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1319